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Issue: First Wave #[nn]
Publication Date: August 2012
 
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Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 06/20/2012
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Pages: 260
ISBN: 9781401231361
UPC/EAN: 978140123136152499
Price: $27.99 CAD
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Content Items: 24 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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[untitled]

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adventure
First Wave
Doc Savage; Spirit; Batman
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FlagFirst Wave #1 [J. G. Jones Cover] published May 2010
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J.G. Jones inscribed his own tombstone on the cover.
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[untitled]

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Contains various illustrations from the stories.
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[Batman / Doc Savage Special #1 Cover A]; First Wave Begins!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Doc Savage
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FlagBatman / Doc Savage Special #1 [Direct Sales, Standard Cover] published January 2010
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Bronze Night

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; James Gordon; Captain Raleigh; Vicki Vale; Doc Savage [Clark Savage, Jr.]; Renny [John Renwick]; Red Duggan [Patrick Duggan]
Doc Savage investigates Batman for an alleged murder.
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FlagBatman / Doc Savage Special #1 [Direct Sales, Standard Cover] published January 2010
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[First Wave #1 Standard Cover]; First Wave

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adventure
First Wave
Doc Savage; Spirit; Batman
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FlagFirst Wave #1 [J. G. Jones Cover] published May 2010
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J.G. Jones inscribed his own tombstone on the cover.
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First Wave Book One

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adventure
First Wave
Doc Savage [Clark Savage, Jr.]; Johnny [William Harper Littlejohn]; Ham [Theodore Marley Brooks]; Monk [Andrew Blodgett Mayfair]; Renny [John Renwick]; Long Tom [Thomas J. Roberts]; Spirit [Denny Colt]; Dolan; Anton Colossi; John Sunlight; Rima the Jungle Girl
In the Amazon, Johnny Littlejohn is maimed by a robot. In New York, Doc Savage visits his father's grave and orders the body exhumed. In Wildwood Cemetery, Dolan steers the Spirit to a midnight rendezvous. Doc Savage finds his father's body replaced with sacks of gold dust printed with red hands. In NY, John Sunlight plots. Back in the Amazon, Anton Colossi orders a village wiped out for harboring Johnny, who's been spirited away by Rima. And the Spirit runs smack into the Blackhawks!
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[First Wave #2]; First Wave

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First Wave
Batman; The Spirit; Doc Savage
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First Wave Book Two

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First Wave
Doc Savage [Clark Savage, Jr.]; Johnny [William Harper Littlejohn]; Ham [Theodore Marley Brooks]; Monk [Andrew Blodgett Mayfair]; Renny [John Renwick]; Long Tom [Thomas J. Roberts]; Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White; Avenger [Richard Benson]; Anton Colossi; Madame Colossi; Rima the Jungle Girl; Blackhawks [Ant Manson; Henry Biggs; Wu Cheng; Jenny Cloud]
Monk and Ham ask the Avenger to don a disguise. The Spirit and Ebony (a woman) hijacked a truck from the Blackhawks, with a coffin. The Blackhawks trash a bar seeking the Spirit. In Hildago, Johnny, recovering, is betrayed and captured by Right Red Hand cultists while Rima keeps watch. In Neolantis (a floating city), two scientists compare atrocities while Colossi argues with Mom. The Blackhawks ambush and torture the Spirit for their "cargo", until Doc Savage busts in. Batman nabs thugs and the Avenger poses as Clark Savage, Sr. The Blackhawks pin Ebony as a hostage.
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[First Wave #3 Standard Cover]; First Wave

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Batman
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First Wave Book Three

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Doc Savage [Clark Savage, Jr.]; Johnny [William Harper Littlejohn]; Renny [John Renwick]; Spirit [Denny Colt]; Dolan; Ebony White; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Avenger [Richard Benson]; John Sunlight; Anton Colossi; Madame Colossi; Blackhawks [Ant Manson; Henry Biggs; Wu Cheng; Jenny Cloud]; Red Duggan [Patrick Duggan]
John Sunlight swims. The graveyard fight is broken up by Dolan's cops, and the Spirit catches an autogyro. Batman trashes a casino, Bruce Wayne chats with Colossi, then steeple climbs as Batman, only to be shot at and pounded, then nearly decapitated by a Right Red Hand cultist. Doc is in jail until a Blackhawk jet blasts him free. The Blackhawks order Ebony to dig up the missing coffin. The Avenger kills thugs and rescues Batman, who chooses to visit Hildago, where Colossi's robot has Johnny.
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[First Wave #4 Standard Cover]; First Wave

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First Wave
Doc Savage; Rima the Jungle Girl
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FlagFirst Wave #4 [J. G. Jones Cover] published November 2010
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First Wave Book Four

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adventure
First Wave
Doc Savage [Clark Savage, Jr.]; Johnny [William Harper Littlejohn]; Ham [Theodore Marley Brooks]; Monk [Andrew Blodgett Mayfair]; Renny [John Renwick]; Long Tom [Thomas J. Roberts]; Spirit [Denny Colt]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Avenger [Richard Benson]; Anton Colossi; Rima the Jungle Girl; Blackhawks [Ant Manson; Henry Biggs; Wu Cheng; Jenny Cloud]
In Hildago, the Blackhawks deliver the coffin to Colossi. Doc and the Spirit fly Blackhawk Air to Hildago. Doc bails out to crash a Right Red Hand cult, but is dropped by darts. Bruce Wayne visits Neolantis, the floating city of Colossi. In NYC, Monk, Ham, and the Avenger are ambushed by shooters. The Spirit and Renny seek Johnny and find a knife-wielding Rima and her panther hold Johnny's computer disk. Doc Savage will be sacrificed by moonlight on an Aztec temple. Batman overhears and swoops on glider wings to the rescue.
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[First Wave #5 Standard Cover]; First Wave

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First Wave
Batman; The Spirit; Doc Savage
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FlagFirst Wave #5 [J. G. Jones Cover] published January 2011
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First Wave Book Five

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adventure
First Wave
Doc Savage [Clark Savage, Jr.]; Johnny [William Harper Littlejohn]; Ham [Theodore Marley Brooks]; Monk [Andrew Blodgett Mayfair]; Renny [John Renwick]; Long Tom [Thomas J. Roberts]; Spirit [Denny Colt]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Avenger [Richard Benson]; John Sunlight; Anton Colossi; Rima the Jungle Girl; Blackhawks [Wu Cheng]
Blackhawk Wu Cheng is KO'd by a robot. Doc and Batman escape Right Red Hand cultists, then infiltrate Neolantis. Renny grabs the computer disk while Spirit and Rima are captured by the Red Hand. In NY, the Avenger dons a disguise and enters John Sunlight's HQ and discovers grisly experiments on homeless men, then he, Monk, Ham, and Tom are captured. Doc fights to the Neolantis center, but Colissi's killers, mutated iguanas, and the robot nail him and the prisoners. The grand scheme: Neolantis will rule the world with a tsunami machine!
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FlagFirst Wave #5 [J. G. Jones Cover] published January 2011
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First Wave #6 Standard Cover

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Batman; Doc Savage; The Spirit
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FlagFirst Wave #6 [J. G. Jones Cover] published March 2011
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First Wave Conclusion

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First Wave
Doc Savage [Clark Savage, Jr.]; Johnny [William Harper Littlejohn]; Ham [Theodore Marley Brooks]; Monk [Andrew Blodgett Mayfair]; Renny [John Renwick]; Long Tom [Thomas J. Roberts]; Spirit [Denny Colt]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Avenger [Richard Benson]; John Sunlight; Anton Colossi; Madame Colossi; Rima the Jungle Girl; Blackhawks [Ant Manson; Henry Biggs; Wu Cheng; Jenny Cloud]
In Neolantis, Doc kills the robot, actually a mindless cyborg. In the pit, Johnny, Wu Cheng, and Rima escape and blow up the giant iguana. Colossi is ambushed by Batman. A tsunami has been reversed to bear down on Neolantis. Blackhawks bomb the wave as Doc's crew boards an escape pod. Doc rides outside holding Batman. In NYC, John Sunlight's scheme of irradiated-gold corpses has failed, and he oddly lets Doc's men and the Avenger go. The Golden Tree's Neolantis is drowned. On the beach, Doc calls it a victory, even if they only inspire others to do better.
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Batman / Doc Savage Special #1 Rags Morales Variant Cover

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Batman; Doc Savage
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FlagBatman / Doc Savage Special #1 [Rags Morales Cover] published January 2010
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First Wave #1 Neal Adams Variant Cover

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Doc Savage; Spirit; Batman
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FlagFirst Wave #1 [Neal Adams Cover] published May 2010
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First Wave #2 Tony Harris Variant Cover

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Batman; Doc Savage; Spirit
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FlagFirst Wave #2 [Tony Harris Cover] published June 2010
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First Wave #3 Lee Bermejo Variant Cover

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Batman; Doc Savage; Spirit
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FlagFirst Wave #3 [Lee Bermejo Cover] published July 2010
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First Wave #4 Geoff Darrow Variant Cover

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Batman; Doc Savage; Spirit
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FlagFirst Wave #4 [Geof Darrow Cover] published November 2010
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First Wave #5 Eduardo Risso Variant Cover

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Batman; Doc Savage; Spirit
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FlagFirst Wave #5 [Eduardo Risso Cover] published January 2011
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First Wave #6 Jim Lee Variant Cover

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First Wave
Batman; Doc Savage; Spirit
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FlagFirst Wave #6 [J. G. Jones Cover] published March 2011
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Go Behind the Scenes of The First Wave

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Notes and character descriptions accompanied by illustrations.

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